“Organising something on that scale doesn’t come cheaply and depends on volunteers. So we are calling on potential sponsors and donors and on willing volunteers to step forward and work with us to make London and our community proud.”

Same old same old. People want a massive great big party with dancing, drinking and entertainment until late into the night, but neither want to pay a penny for it or get off their arses to help make it happen.

And then they wail that it’s some kind of ‘right’ to have a free party, forgetting all about the protest element.

I for one might bother showing up if it looks like it’s not another exercise in corporate greed. Those of us who have lived abroad where real community Parades take place will know what I mean. We shall see

Jack Holroyde has hit the nail on the head! If Pride London was organised as a “protest”, then a lot of the policing costs would go. I know of a couple of Prides in much smaller cities that are having to cancel this year because of the new charges the police have to make – like £10 a yard for the parade!

It’s high time this entire thing was re-thought. It’s not 1960 anymore – and all these have become, as others have observed, is a corporate drug party. NO one gives as sh*t about a bunch of clowns parading through town. — Find a park, do a large installation of tents, and outreach, entertainment – or, a month-long series of events. I’ve seen the same in NYC, and Paris: just a cheap excuse to use drugs and drink. Little about community.

You mean like Black History Month?! Nah, the plebs/tax payers wouldn’t approve of supporting the LGBT community for a whole month when they can barely muster the enthusiasm to do it for a wet weekend once a year.

You are all so negative. Do you know how much it costs to stage? Who do you people suggest pays for it – Santa Claus?
I hope it’s cancelled and there’s never another one again because that’s what we deserve. I wonder how many of you moaning have given any money or volunteered?

Has the Chair, the board members tried corporate sponsership before it decided to release this news item? Also what free corporate/private support could also be received in which the total sum of £280,000 might not be need, it would be helpful if a published proposel of how the monies are to be used, this might help people put thier hands in the wallets in support!

I hope this Pride will push through. It is at these times were people with different sexual preference get in the street and shout out to the world that we are born this way and we should be accepted and loved as humans.